The mistake Params::Validate makes is that it doesn't allow you to create what your simple case is. There should be a set of import parameters that specify exactly what the default handling for validate() should be, thus allowing you to customize it on a per-file basis. Or, allow the spec to be read from a datastore (such as a config file or files), allowing it to be global for a project. Oh, and that customization has to allow me to set callbacks when and where I need them, for custom validation and error-handling. And I have to be able to override the config file(s) in the use line.

THAT would be the featureset that would get me to use it. Otherwise, it's just too much trouble for very little gain.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: RFC named parameter syntactic sugar by dragonchild
in thread RFC named parameter syntactic sugar by snowhare

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